Aperion Care Arbors Michigan City
1101 E Coolspring Ave, Michigan City IN 46360 · (219) 874-5211 · 76.66% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Aperion Care Arbors Michigan City is located in Michigan City, Indiana, a city with a population of 43,625 people. Our rating system was not kind to this nursing home, as it received an overall score of F. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Michigan City. The city has just one other nursing home. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category was short-term care, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 180 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
Neither this nursing home's overall grade nor its category scores gave us much to write home about. Its best area was short-term care, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this facility provides substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than a typical facility. The last area we considered in this category is the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This place fared better in this area, with 50.9 percent of its residents returning home. This was just about this nursing home's only redeeming quality in this area.
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to point out this nursing home's inspection score where it received an F. This generally means we found some major red flags on its inspection reports. For places that received this poor of an inspection rating, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This nursing home was hit with 12 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility also received 51 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.
Nurse Quality
This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. Our nursing category includes many components, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This place provided a meager 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. In addition to receiving below average scores for nursing hours, this nursing home was less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients suffering pressure ulcers and found that this facility was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is a bad sign when you consider that many pressure ulcers are preventable with better nursing care. This statistic really dragged down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.
Long-term Care Quality
The next area we graded is long-term care. It received an F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. Nursing homes that do not fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility provided the vaccine to just 61.622807 percent of its residents. Unfortunately, its hospitalization rate was also disappointing. Here we found that this facility had 2.12 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Aperion Care Arbors Michigan City Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols minimizes the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic gauges the percent of long-term patients who had falls resulting in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be an indication of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are generally prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Some argue that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better